Did Ezreal drop off the face of the planet? There are many questions in this thread that need to be answered

@Ezreal

So its coming to Sona's judgement day (1 year since her release), since you made her, can you tell us why she has gotten no new skins besides a limited edition one?

She is not exactly unpopular, what is the main reason riot creates skins for champs, because they are popular

I just want variety in the skins for champions i enjoy, i have been using classic Sona for almost a year now, i really wouldn't mind know the reason behind this

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Also, I always tweet whenever I finish a post in @Ezreal (should be easier than sifting through this thread). http://twitter.com/#!/RiotEzreal

I just got back from getting some laser eye surgery so I figured I'd spend an hour or two catching up on this thread. Here's hoping we can get it to a million views!!!

I can't wait to start working on that gravity champ. I have an approved kit which I am super excited about. We have been waiting to do this champion for a long time. However, there are a few other champions I'd like to release before the gravity character. More info coming soon!

I have heard rumors of us looking into a new AD / CDR item. So I believe something is in the works, but as I haven't played with it yet, I have no idea on if it will ever come out.

I'd also say that I'd like to see a slight change to Nashor's Tooth, I can't think of any champions that get that item any more (anyone know of any?). Or if you have any suggestions on how to change it...small changes that is.

Well, I know a number of designers who were psych majors, and I also know a number of designers who were CS majors. In addition, I would spread out your knowledge among a few other good to know fields and get at least one course in each: macroeconomics, statistics, and marketing.

Yea, I loveeee the sand theme right now, we're even discussing a few cool things we could do if we ever made a sand champion. As for birds, we already have Swain and Cryophoenix, so perhaps another someday but not any time soon.

I can say that we are not thoroughly impressed by his current passive. We would like to change it, however, there are a number of more critical changes that we would rather focus on for his kit (i.e. the anti fun of his long range / turrets, and the lack of fun in using his ultimate). So at the end of the day, while we would like to update it, it would take a backseat to more important changes.

We tried making Essence Flux hit minions and it just didn't feel right, we'll have to look into a different way to allow his AP version to be more capable of farming.

We are investigating a 'Siege mode' currently, you'll find out more about it sooner than you might expect...

/agree on heimer's ult.

I think we can all agree that Dragon's are awesome. And here at Riot Games we are in the business of making awesome. As such, I'm sure you can infer as to whether we will make a dragon champion some day ;-).

Also, ranged champions incoming =-D.

High Five on the short and simple, it makes you 5x as likely to get responded to!

We are looking into Jax right now. And as I'm sure you know by now, his kit is not the easiest one to fix (we have tried on multiple occasions in the past). We are looking into ways to make him more consistent / normalize his power. Hitting the passive feels in line with these goals.

We might do a shaman style champion someday. Also, can you elaborate on animism, I'm afraid the term is foreign to me?

It's a ton of fun, I love my job deeply, enough to be spending hours posting on threads like this on my time off =-P.

As for Grez, I believe we are working on figuring out the referral bonus now, but I don't have a lot of insight into those workings.

Hey Churchy, sorry I cut your post down a bit but it was hard to fit into this post.

1) We feel that Poppy has always been generally problematic creates a few pain points for the game. There aren't any real new changes.
2) We are not changing Poppy because of Dominion, Dominion has simply put her a bit more in the limelight.
3) We are not looking to nerf poppy, simply to get her into a better place for the health of the game.
4) Ranged champions attack while taunted because that is what taunt does (force the unit to attack), the same end result occurs if you taunt a melee champion in melee range.

From a few discussions I've had, Wukong apparently has a great early poking game. Though I don't like hearing about this 'delay' feel issue, I'll bring it up to the live team.

AD/Spell Vamp? It's been brought up before, so we'll look into it. But doesn't Hextech Gunblade have AD and spellvamp?

We're currently investigating Sivir, I'll bring up your concerns to the person working on the kit.

1) Yes, we have plenty of higher skill champions in the work currently (you can blame me partially for that =-P).
2) Hmmm, I don't think we have any energy champions currently slated. I'll bring it up if we do.

We haven't implemented either of the above items yet, so they are still quite far off.

And yep, I'm pretty excited for Dominion as well. It'll be amazing!!!

Oh when it comes...it will be badass =-D.

Well, Ezreal has been doing quite well in tournament play lately, so we don't want to give him any major buffs for the time being. That being said, I am working with the Live team to add in a series of buffs centered around making him easier to play, and slightly boosting his AP playstyle.

Are you aware that his W currently pops his own team's veils? It's almost a bad thing to have him in a team fight later down the road if he can do that. Especially if you're playing like, AP Ezreal.

Why are you so cool? Deliver me more awesome new champs bro, I like your designs.

Any plans for Swain? Or *cough* a dragon related Swain skin

Ezreal, I saw on your twitter that you were thinking about a weapon swapping champ - what influences did you decide on for that sort of kit? How would Riot feel about a character similar to Udyr with 'active' abilities that leave a passive lingering benefit, where the lingering benefit is the character switching to a new weapon (i.e, he has a skill that pins somebody to the ground with a sword, the lingering benefit turning him in a melee character with a sword to attack with maybe a little higher base AD/less Attack Speed)?

The concept almost sounds like a Devil May Cry feel - which seems neat, I'd love to see that kind of character in the game.

EDIT: Also, how does Riot feel about Yorick? Would they do another character with pets again? I like the idea of spirits, animals, or elemental beings as pets.

I'd like to see more support champs. Karma is a lot of fun, and a very interesting style. I'm not talking about support like lux, where they are damage dealers with a shield, but healing types, like Sona and Soraka.

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Also, I always tweet whenever I finish a post in @Ezreal (should be easier than sifting through this thread). http://twitter.com/#!/RiotEzreal

Continuing the posting post laser eye surgery. Here's hoping we can get it to a million views!!!

It was unfortunately only for super high tier players who knew about a 'trick'. It felt pretty 'hacky' even if it was pretty fun...It also led to a few super overpowered situations.

We put him in the icebox for now. Unfortunately the kits I kept coming up with never quite worked, I never found a way to make him a 10/10. I'll go back to him after I solve a few other champions. Or perhaps when I find a stellar (non OP) ultimate.

Haha, it was pretty dang awesome! Can't wait to see more games like that in the near future =-D.

1) We have plenty of champs with unique kits in the works right now.
1b) We are looking into hitting some theme's which fans enjoy, though I can't speak to which ones currently.
2) Risky kits do take longer, so we mostly do them when we have more time. Also, to reference Tempus, the reason why he is taking so long is simply because I haven't been on the champion team for the last 7 months.
3) I actually have a skill very similar to that coming out on my next champion. It sends out a line nuke, except the nuke stays at the final location (like a Gragas barrel), you can then activate it again to pull the blade back with an additional effect.

We're considering giving the passive an AP component, but that is likely the biggest / riskiest change that we are considering right now. Buffing Essence Flux is kinda a given at this point =-P.

I'll pass it along, though I'm not sure how highly prioritized it will be.

A junglers Doran's item...interesting, I would love to see something that if we decided to remove Doran's stacking.

A legendary Tenacity item...you might just be on to something ;-).

The attack timing post spell cast change was supposed to help out her Sheen build, though upon building it yesterday I was wholly unimpressed... We'll likely have to look at it again in the future.

I'll pass this onto the live team.

We are looking at consistifying his damage output throughout the game.

Yes, my recent posts have been fairly consistent in pointing out that we are content with Ezreal's current power level, and we are more focused on making him slightly easier to use and increasing the power level of his AP version.

As for his passive, I'm not entirely sure if it is a problem. It is far more difficult to achieve 5 stacks of his passive in the early game (so in that way it naturally scales). It also is % based, and as such increases by a lower amount due to his lower base attack speed at the beginning of the game.

Haha, much appreciated. Though honestly I think that was more due to the skill differential in the game rather than my personal skill level =-P.

Sivir is the #1 Ranged DPS champion that we will look at next. We have heard the community and are working towards it.

That's odd, the animators seemed amped to get it in. I'll bring it up again, but same as before, no promises.

It got delayed, but it is still coming.

It has everything I'm looking for when I play AS/AP Kog. Although its **** expensive considering that build also need Bloodrazor. I could also see it being quite desirable on Kayle, but admittedly that's about it.